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Chinua Achebe (1930 - 21st March, 2013)
“Did not the black people in America, deprived of their own instruments, take the trumpet and the trombone and blow them as they had never been blown before, as indeed they were not designed to be blown? And the result, was it not jazz? Is anyone going to say that this was a loss to the world or that those first Negro slaves who began to play around with discarded instruments of their masters should have played waltzes and foxtrots? No! Let every people bring their gifts to the great festival of the world’s cultural harvest and mankind will be all the richer for the variety and distinctiveness of the offerings.”
Chinua Achebe, essay “Colonialist Criticism”
Hopes and Impediments: Selected Essays 1965-1987 (Heinemann 1988)
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